Marvin, S. and Luque-Ayala, A. (2017) Urban Operating Systems: Diagramming the City. International Journal Of Urban And Regional Research, 41 (1). pp. 84-103. ISSN 0309-1317
Abstract
A set of software/hardware packages developed by IT companies for the urban market is transforming the way in which cities are imagined and configured. These urban operating systems (Urban OS) embody important presumptions about what constitutes appropriate knowledge and forms of decision making, pointing to how novel forms of ‘smart' or ‘computational' urbanism may govern urban life. Arguing that an analysis of the interface between the urban and IT requires a broader historical and theoretical perspective, the article traces the ways in which the city has been diagrammed as a space of power since the nineteenth century and highlights the antecedents of Urban OS present across different domains of life—particularly in military and corporate enterprises. Relaying the urban as an efficient logistical enterprise, and operating as a piloting device (Deleuze and Guattari, 1987), the Urban OS appears as an emerging urban diagram introducing an informational diagrammatic of control. We focus on five archetypal framings of how Urban OS envision the city, illustrating how a new corporate rationality of control based on functional simplification and heterogeneous reintegration seeks to take hold in the city (via re-engineering, agility, modularity, flexibility and configurability).
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2017 The Authors. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research Published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd Under License by Urban Research Publications Limited. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
Keywords: | digital; smart; software; hardware; diagram; corporativism; ICT; urban governance; computation; Deleuze |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > Sheffield Urban Institute |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 20 Sep 2017 11:18 |
Last Modified: | 20 Sep 2017 11:18 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2427.12479 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Wiley |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1111/1468-2427.12479 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:121389 |
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